Learn Android Application Development

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Java Basics

Lecture 1: Getting Ready

Lecture 2: Packages, classes and running your first program

Lecture 3: Variables, Literals and Constants

Lecture 4: Reading input from the user- The Scanner class

Lecture 5: Getting Input from the user using the JOptionPane class

Lecture 6: Comments in Java

Lecture 7: Introduction to Decision Structures – Operators and Expressions

Lecture 8: If, if-else, if-else-if, nested if and logical operators

Lecture 9: Check for values inside or outside a range

Lecture 10: Comparing Strings

Lecture 11: The Switch-Statement

Lecture 12: Introduction to Loops

Lecture 13: Useful Loop Calculations – Input Validation and a User Controlled Loop

Lecture 14: Useful Loop Calculations Part 2

Lecture 15: Working with Files

Lecture 16: Methods

Lecture 17: Introduction to Arrays

Lecture 18: Comparing Arrays

Lecture 19: Copying Arrays

Lecture 20: Highest and Lowest values / Sum and Average

Lecture 21: Arrays with Files and String arrays

Lecture 22: The ArrayList class

Lecture 23: 23. Classes And Objects

Lecture 24: 24. More Classes And Objects

Chapter 2: Introduction to Android

Lecture 1: Introduction to Android

Lecture 2: Installing Android Studio

Lecture 3: Introduction to Android Studio

Lecture 4: Activity Lifecycle

Chapter 3: Creating your first application

Lecture 1: ID Application Part 1

Lecture 2: ID Application Part 2

Lecture 3: Challenge (Cricket Chirps)

Lecture 4: Challenge Solution (Cricket Chirps)

Lecture 5: Debugging your Application

Lecture 6: Creating a Signed APK file

Chapter 4: Intents

Lecture 1: Introduction to Intents

Lecture 2: Explicit Intents Part 1

Lecture 3: Explicit Intents Part 2

Lecture 4: Implicit Intents

Lecture 5: Vector Assets

Lecture 6: Challenge Intents

Lecture 7: Solution to Intents Challenge Part 1

Lecture 8: Solution to Intents Challenge Part 2

Chapter 5: Fragments, RecyclerView and CardView

Lecture 1: Introduction to Fragments

Lecture 2: Fragments Part 1

Lecture 3: Fragments Part 2

Lecture 4: RecyclerView and CardView Part 1

Lecture 5: RecyclerView and CardView Part 2

Lecture 6: Fragments with RecyclerView Part1

Lecture 7: Fragments with RecyclerView Part 2

Lecture 8: Fragments with RecyclerView Part 3

Lecture 9: Challenge: Fragments with RecyclerView

Lecture 10: Solution to Fragments and RecyclerView Challenge Part 1

Lecture 11: Solution to Fragments and RecyclerView Challenge Part 2

Lecture 12: Solution to Fragments and RecyclerView Challenge Part 3

Chapter 6: Customizations

Lecture 1: Floating hint and autocomplete TextView

Lecture 2: Create a custom ListView

Lecture 3: Create a custom Toast

Lecture 4: The Android ActionBar

Chapter 7: Saving Data Locally on the Phone

Lecture 1: Save user preferences using SharedPreferences

Lecture 2: Save data using text files

Lecture 3: Making use of the AsyncTask class

Lecture 4: Save data by using a SQLite database

Chapter 8: Other

Lecture 1: Android 6 Permissions

Lecture 2: Read Data from a RSS Feed

Lecture 3: Send SMSes using the SmsManager class

Lecture 4: Android Service (Example: Stream music)

Chapter 9: Android App Widgets (Homescreen Widgets)

Lecture 1: Introduction to Android App Widgets

Lecture 2: Advanced App Widget (display data from RSS feed)

Chapter 10: Backendless (Mobile Backend As a Service) – Saving Data Online

Lecture 1: Introduction to Backendless (MBAAS)

Lecture 2: Setting up your app for the Backendless SDK

Lecture 3: Documents to use for this section

Lecture 4: Creating the Contacts Application

Lecture 5: Creating the Login and Register Activity

Lecture 6: Register a New User in Backendless

Lecture 7: Login a User and Password Reset

Lecture 8: Keep a User logged in to your app

Lecture 9: Layouts for New Contact and Contact List

Lecture 10: Create a new Contact in the Contact Table

Lecture 11: Getting Contacts in a ListView from a Backendless Table

Lecture 12: Designing the Layout for the info activity

Lecture 13: Coding for the Contact Info Activity

Lecture 14: Edit and Delete a Contact

Chapter 11: Google Maps

Lecture 1: Introduction to Backendless (MBAAS)

Lecture 2: Setting up your application to use Backendless

Lecture 3: Google Maps Introduction

Lecture 4: Google Maps (share location online) Part 1

Lecture 5: Google Maps (share location online) Part 2

Lecture 6: Google Maps (share location online) Part 3

Lecture 7: Google Maps (share location online) Part 4